Harmony Energy reveals 34MW/68MWh battery project in advancement with Fotowatio Renewable Ventures

• Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has actually revealed its 2nd utility-scale battery project with Harmony Energy, having closed financing and also construction contracts.

The duo are collaborating on the 34MW/68MWh Contego project, which is comprised of a system of 28 Tesla Megapack lithium-ion batteries and also makes use of Tesla's Autobidder AI software application for real-time trading as well as control.

Work on the project is readied to start this month near Burgess Hill in West Sussex, with the website anticipated to be completed in 2021, making the project one of the largest battery power storage space plants in the UK.

It comes as part of a tactical power storage space pipe that is set to be released internationally, with both firms having actually already interacted on the Holes Bay battery storage project. This likewise utilises Tesla Megapack batteries, although this set contains 6 of the batteries, with a total capability of 7.5 MW/15MWh.

Holes Bay has actually been running because June 2020, and also has joined the EPEX area market, Firm Frequency Response (FFR) and also the Balancing Mechanism (BM), being the very first site to go stay in National Grid ESO's brand-new bigger access application shows interface for the BM.

The interface went reside in September, with the purpose to open up the marketplace for non-traditional participants to sign up with via what National Grid ESO has actually admired as a much more straightforward, cost-efficient and also internet based course.

Peter Kavanagh, CEO of Harmony Energy, claimed closing the funding as well as building contracts for Contego as well as completing Holes Bay were "amazing developments" particularly when taking into consideration "the included challenges of developing these projects during the existing pandemic".

" There is genuine momentum in the advancement of subsidy-free, energy scale battery storage in the UK as we continue the shift towards a greener economic situation. The worth of battery storage in supplying flexibility to the grid remains to increase as the UK's penetration of renewable energy grows."

Harmony Energy has over 500MW of construction-ready battery storage plants in the UK, as well as recently made its UK solar launching with a 30MW range in Yorkshire.